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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1940
Page
2
Actor George Tucker and beauty Sandre Jolley of the Carroll show eloped to Yuma and were married yesterday. The reports confirm the intimate ceremony and highlight the couple's swift union amid Hollywood coverage.
Readable fragments show temperatures, wind directions, humidity, precipitation totals, and sun events for various U S cities and towns. Several entries list cloud cover and conditions such as clear or cloudy, with station notes for places including Corpus Christi Fort Worth Galveston Dallas and others. Continuous data appear garbled with OCR errors but indicate a broad regional weather snapshot with dates and times.
Rome reports fascist authorities issued a warning that the Rome Berlin Tokyo alliance unites totalitarian powers against US interference and aims to preserve a just world peace while signaling potential Spain's entry and a deterrent force if other nations threaten their living space.
A group of San Antonio architects led by Ralph Cameron president of the Texas Society of Architects, is amending a three leg convention of the society in Jin.
A three power pact linking Germany Italy and Japan seeks to deter US entry while pledging mutual aid if any signatory is attacked. The ceremony in Berlin highlighted unity, yet Spain is not named. Meanwhile Allied air raids widen, with London and Dover bombed, and reports of invasion fears and anti aircraft developments.
British warships pounded German concentrations along the Belgian coast while French forces advanced in Champagne seizing Sabot wood. A German offensive in the Argonne was repulsed as Warsaw fell a year ago today to Soviet troops. Sergt. Clement Sarugiyn, the first French soldier killed in World War II, was buried in St. Croix. Modernize your home and office with ads for contractors and materials.
Washington on September 27 reports swift Senate action mirroring the House in a defense appropriations tilt totaling 1 469 983 688 dollars. The measure finances a civilian conscription and creates a peacetime army of 1,399,441 in nine months, lifting total defense funds to 12,136,032,516 dollars. It funds registration of 16.5 million on October 16 and drafting at least 695,990 registrants, plus pay, equipment, and training for trainees and 246,130 National Guardsmen on active duty alongside a 375,000 regular army already funded. Additional funds are anticipated but no further requests are foreseen this session. The bill also provides 165,900,000 in cash and 250,000,000 in contracts to speed fighting plane production to 3,000 monthly.
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